For people of my generation (I’m 31) I guess “Where were you on 9/11” is the equivalent.
I am 54, and I dont remember the assassination, but I remember being forced to watch the funeral. I am two weeks older than John-John.
Then we had Reagan getting shot.
Then there was the Challenger Explosion.
Then 9/11.
After a while it gets routine...
I know I am not supposed to reply to my own post, but this is kind of funny.
My mother-in-law is 92. Every anniversary,she goes to the local, Springfield MA, Kennedy Memorial at the local park. She loved Kennedy (being from MA and all. My father in law, not so much.)
So I dutifully take her yesterday. Cold as hell. I stand there with her and I watch these folks (there are fewer every year) getting all emotional. Then I realize that most of the people are YOUNGER than me.
I stood there thinking, “Stupid democrat robots.”
“After a while it gets routine...”
‘We didn’t start the fire, It was always burning Since the world’s been turning....’
If there’s one date from the late 20th century that will be remembered a hundred years or more from now it will be July 20, 1969.